Japanese Carp Lace
Burrows & Company offers a new lace design inspired by the famous Japanese Carp pattern by Candace Wheeler. This is woven as a fine 14 point lace with an especially high degree of delicacy. Wheeler, one of America's most important designer of the 19th and early 20th century, was inspired by Japanese stenciled fabrics.
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Burrows Studio: Carp Stencil
by Candace Wheeler
This lively pattern was originally published by Candace Wheeler in the early 1900's as a design for a bathroom stencil. It is a two piece stencil, which allows for mixing shades and colors in the paints. The print shown here has two greens in the surround and the shell, and two blues used on the fish itself, with an effort made to maintain variety of tones from one application to the next. This stencil has also been effectively painted using just one color with different shading to highlight the figures. To achieve an artistic result, we suggest experimenting first with colors on posterboard before starting to work on the walls.
The Carp Stencil is currently out of stock.
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As fabric:
54" wide with a repeat of 23 1/2". On linen and cotton blend
suitable for drapery and light upholstery needs, slipcovers
and cushions. Heavier upholstery and portierre fabric weight
printed on denim with a 48" width and a 25 1/2" repeat.
Associated Artists design by Candace Wheeler, c.1885 - 1905.
Hand printed in New England. Copyright
1994. Offered in indigo on white, and purple on olive on the
denim (a document colorway).
As wallpaper:
26 1/2" wide with a repeat of 23 3/4". Hand printed in New
England. Copyright 1994. Offered in
shades of pale gold (JPC-001); metalic gold on sage
(JPC-002); ivory on indigo blue ground (JPC-003).
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"Honeybee Wallpaper and Frieze"
Candace Wheeler won first prize of $1000 in 1881 from Warren, Fuller & Co. of New York in a competition for the design of an American art wallpaper. A room of the original paper still survives at the Hall-Fowler Memorial Library in Ionia, Michigan, and our reproduction was traced off the wall in Ionia by John Burrows. The Honeybee Wallpaper is 20.359" wide with a repeat of 24 1/8" (drop match). Honeybee Frieze is 18 5/8" high with a 40" repeat. Hand printed in New England. Copyright 2001. Offered in the original document colorway of off white with light yellow honeycomb background, shades of salmon and terra cotta for the clover, metallic gold, green gold, copper and bronze, and a blue accent in the frieze.
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Honeybee Lace Curtains
Candace Wheeler won distinction in the 1880s with her Honeybee wallpaper, and our Scottish artists have now interpreted it for Burrows Studio as a curtain panel in their finest 14-point lace. Mrs. Wheeler had a busy life establishing women's aid and needlework societies. working with Louis Comfort Tiffany to decorate the White House for President Chester Alan Arthur, directing her own design business, developing resort properties, overseeing the interiors design of the Women's Building at the World's Columbian Exhibition and writing books on needlework and interior design. The honeybee is a fitting symbol of this woman's impressive career.
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"Seashell & Ribbon"
A fabric 54" wide with a repeat of 11". On linen and cotton blend suitable for drapery and light upholstery needs, slipcovers and cushions. Associated Artists design by Candace Wheeler, c. 1885 - 1905. Hand printed in New England. Copyright 1994. Offered in sepia and yellow (a document colorway).
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As fabric:
48" wide with a repeat of 13 1/2". On linen and cotton blend
suitable for drapery and light upholstery needs, slipcovers
and cushions. Associated Artists design by Candace Wheeler,
c. 1885 - 1905. Hand printed in New England. Copyright 1994. Offered in indigo on white (a
document colorway).
As wallpaper:
23 3/4" wide with a repeat of 13 5/8". Hand printed in New
England. Copyright 1994. Offered in
shades of pale gold (LLY-001), sorrel (LLY-002).
Click here for a larger image of the Lily Fabric.
A fabric 54" wide with a repeat of 9". On linen and cotton blend suitable for drapery and light upholstery needs, slipcovers and cushions. Associated Artists design by Candace Wheeler, c. 1885 - 1905. Hand printed in New England. Copyright 1994. Offered in indigo on white (a document colorway).
Click here for a larger image of the Nasturtium Leaf Fabric.
